Table 1: Physical and chemical characterization of animal wastes, pineapple fruit wastes and inoculum.
| Parameters (%) |
Cattle Dung |
Pig Dung |
Poultry Dung |
Pineapple Waste |
Inoculum |
| Dry Matter |
91.85 |
87.79 |
88.95 |
93.26 |
85.68 |
| Organic Dry Matter |
95.97 |
95.29 |
94.74 |
96.88 |
94.08 |
| Nitrogena
|
1.69 |
1.627 |
0.508 |
0.204 |
0.539 |
| Ammonium Nitritea
|
0.911 |
0.825 |
0.407 |
0.256 |
0.479 |
| Phosphorousa
|
0.029 |
0.038 |
0.034 |
0.042 |
0.027 |
| pHa* |
6.11 |
6.49 |
6.35 |
5.03 |
6.18 |
| Moisturea
|
8.15 |
12.21 |
11.05 |
6.74 |
14.32 |
| Crude Protein |
12.68 |
16.89 |
25.79 |
4.15 |
9.89 |
| Crude Fat |
1.51 |
2.02 |
1.81 |
1.84 |
2.69 |
| Carbohydrate |
25.94 |
21.88 |
23.72 |
63.81 |
8.75 |
| Carbon/Nitrogen* |
17.62 |
14.58 |
9.63 |
42.80 |
17.08 |
| Total Acetic Acida
|
0.285 |
0.217 |
0.264 |
0.481 |
0.279 |
| Crude Fibre |
38.29 |
14.85 |
0.471 |
11.64 |
1.86 |
| Potassium |
0.527 |
0.392 |
0.472 |
0.725 |
0.169 |
| Lignin |
16.85 |
15.31 |
17.89 |
13.28 |
1.88 |
| Hemicellulose |
24.89 |
23.57 |
26.41 |
17.23 |
2.94 |
| Carbona
|
35.49 |
39.40 |
39.74 |
28.43 |
18.79 |
N.B: The parameter with superscript ‘a’ was analyzed in wet basis and parameter with asterisk * has no unit.